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lives. Because of this, we cannot hope to be able to judge them as we can
novelists of the past. The critical approach to our contemporaries must differ from
the critical approach to writers of the past, if only because we are too near our ...
lives. Because of this, we cannot hope to be able to judge them as we can
novelists of the past. The critical approach to our contemporaries must differ from
the critical approach to writers of the past, if only because we are too near our ...
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Ford liberates his characters — Henry, Katherine, Cranmer, the Princess Mary,
Cromwell, Throckmorton, and the rest — from the associations encrusting them
from four centuries of bitter sectarian history, so that they live as human beings.
Ford liberates his characters — Henry, Katherine, Cranmer, the Princess Mary,
Cromwell, Throckmorton, and the rest — from the associations encrusting them
from four centuries of bitter sectarian history, so that they live as human beings.
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Are all men's lives like the lives of us good people- lives of the Ashburnhams, of
the Dowells, of the Ruttords — broken, tumultuous, agonized, and unromantic
lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by deaths, by agonies?
Are all men's lives like the lives of us good people- lives of the Ashburnhams, of
the Dowells, of the Ruttords — broken, tumultuous, agonized, and unromantic
lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by deaths, by agonies?
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 51 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Part 9 of A Dutton Paperback Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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